Tubridy Tonight

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Tubridy Tonight

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Format Chat show, Talk show, variety show
Created by -
Starring Ryan Tubridy
(2004–present)
Country of origin Republic of Ireland
No. of episodes unknown
Production
Running time 60 minutes per edition
Broadcast
Original channel RTÉ
Original run 2004-10-16 – present


Tubridy Tonight is a television chat show broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One. The show is hosted by Ryan Tubridy and is broadcast live on Saturday nights after the RTÉ One News and Weather. The show began broadcasting on October 16, 2004 for a ten-week run and was extended by a further thirteen shows until April 2005. A second series of the show ran from October 2005 to May 2006. The third series began in 2007.

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[edit] Format

Tubridy Tonight is the current chat show in the Saturday night slot since the ending[1] of Kenny Live in 1999. The show has an American-style feel about it[citation needed] with a house band, The Camembert Quartet, providing the opening music. Similar to American chat shows Tubridy Tonight has no opening titles. The show follows a very simple format. There are usually three interviewees as well as a musical guest. The host, Ryan Tubridy, also conducts a quiz with a member of the studio audience and to a competition consisting of a live call to a viewer at the end of the show, to win a prize.

[edit] Guests

Guests on the first two series' of the show included Bob Geldof, an Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Charles Dance. Actress Brenda Fricker appeared with her Oscar and was shown playing drums with the house band whilst former tennis player Pat Cash was shown playing guitar in a separate moment. Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow sang The Beatles song "Hey Jude" and encouraged the audience to join in. Hollywood actor Richard E. Grant revealed his reason for appearing in Spiceworld: The Movie. Also appearing were comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish international rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll, snooker players Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay, actor Jimmy Nesbitt, supermodel Twiggy, Naked Camera actor Maeve Higgins (who revealed why she wanted to mary Eddie Hobbs), West Wing actor Martin Sheen, actress Julie Walters, comedian Ross Noble (Who climbed the prop bookcases and inspected the books to see if they were real,before ripping out a picture of Mike Yarwood on one page and wearing it as a mask) and television personality Hector Ó hEochagáin. Musical guests have included Blondie, The Human League (singing "Don't You Want Me"), Natalie Imbruglia (singing "Shiver") and David Hasselhoff singing "Unchain My Heart".

Some notable guest include:

[edit] Music

As is standard with television chat shows, each week an artist is invited onto the show to perform a piece of music. A number of Irish artists have so far featured on the show, including Bell X1, The Blizzards, Republic of Loose, Paddy Casey, Director, Royseven, Christy Moore, Liam Clancy, The Frank And Walters, Fight Like Apes Julie Feeney, Neosupervital, The Frames and Glen Hansard.

[edit] Christmas shows

Tubridy usually travels to another part of the country to host a special Christmas show every year.

[edit] Praise and competition

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Tubridy Tonight and its host have won praise[1]from the former host of The Late Late Show, Gay Byrne. The show competes for guests with The Late Late Show. Some guests have opted[citation needed] to be interviewed by Tubridy instead of Pat Kenny's Late Late Show . The competition between the two chat shows is analogous to similar competition in a previous decade between Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Pat Kenny moved from the Saturday night slot to take over the presentation of the Late Late Show on Friday nights

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